General Sleep Button placement, argh

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How did this get through beta testing or whatever? Why would you put the sleep button more or less directly across from the volume rocker? I can't tell you how many times I have unknowingly changed my volume setting (ring to silent, vibrate to silent, silent to ring, etc.) just trying to turn the screen off.

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I prefer the power button there (it was where my beloved AT&T Tilt has its button), but the volume buttons are horrible. If they put them at the bottom, same side as the power it would have been perfect as they could have doubled as a hardware camera button.

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I prefer the power/sleep button being on top of the phone (like the original Droid had). It's out of the way and hard to accidentally press. Though the location of it on the Galaxy Nexus would have been a great place for a camera button.

I agree the volume rocker is horribly placed though. Virtually all games and even a lot of utility apps require the phone to be in landscape view, and that almost always requires the left side of the screen to be on the bottom. So it's always in the way and the volume gets changed accidentally.

Button placement on the phone could have been a lot better overall, but it could have been worse.